The place of carousal is a bare spot near a large and ancient well out of which grows a vast pipal tree.
So the Brahman first asked a Pipal Tree what it thought of the matter, but the Pipal Tree replied coldly, "What have you to complain about?
Another device is to make a pradakshana or pilgrimage round a pipal tree, going naked at midnight after worshipping Maroti or Hanuman, and holding a necklace of tulsi beads in the hand.
In Betul the bridal couple are seated in the centre of a square made of four plough yokes, while a leaf of the pipal tree and a piece of turmeric are tied by a string round both their wrists.
The village generally lies on a slight eminence near a nullah or stream, and is often nicely planted with tamarind or pipal trees.
Those of the Bamhania sept revere the banyan and pipal trees, as these are held sacred by Brahmans.
Brahma has no consort, and it is believed that while all other trees are both male and female the pipal is only male, and is capable of impregnating a woman and rendering her fertile.
A third form of ordeal was as follows: The Jemadar and the gang assemble under a pipal tree, and after knocking off the neck of an earthen pitcher they kill a goat and collect its blood in the pitcher, and put some glass bangles in it.
If a woman is suspected of misconduct she is made to pick a pice coin out of boiling oil; or a pipal leaf is placed on her hand and a red-hot axe laid over it, and if her hand is burnt or she refuses to stand the test she is pronounced guilty.
Neither the pipal nor banyan trees should be planted in the yard of a house, because the leavings of food might fall upon them, and this would be an insult to the deities who inhabit the sacred trees.
The pipal is of course a sacred tree, and is the abode of Brahma, the original creator of the world.
In the middle of the village by the biggest temple will be an old pipal tree, the trunk encircled by an earthen or stone platform, which answers to the village club.
Another report states that adult unmarried girls are not expelled but are married to a pipal tree.
A few of the bones are picked up and buried under a pipal tree, and a pitcher with a hole in the bottom is hung on the tree so that water may trickle down on to them.
I will hang your cradle on the banyan tree, and its rope to the pipal tree; I will rock my darling gently so that the rope shall never break.
Tales of this kind should be told, as in India, in the evening shadows under the village pipal tree, suggestively whispering of ghost-land overhead, while the vast background of the outer dark beckons the fancy to a far travel.
The pot containing the two pieces of bone is generally buried beneath a pipal (Ficus religiosa) tree growing near a tank.
A bed of sand is made, in which a banyan (Ficus bengalensis) or pipal (Ficus religiosa) is planted.
Those who belong to the Raghindala (Ficus religiosa) gotra are not allowed to use the leaves of the sacred fig or pipal tree as plates for their food.
So the Brahman asked first a Pipal Tree what it thought of the matter; but the Pipal Tree replied coldly: "What have you to complain about?
The clothes of the pair are knotted together, and they are made to walk round a Tulasi plant or a Pipal tree on the banks of the tank, in a mock form of the marriage ritual.
The Pipal is invoked at the rite of investiture with the sacred thread at marriages and at the foundation-laying of houses.
Thus, among high-caste Hindus a jar of water is hung on a Pipal tree for the refreshment of the spirit.
It forms, on account of its hardness, the base of the Arani or sacred fire-drill, and in it the wedge of the softer Pipalwood works and fire is produced by friction.
It is needless to say that this regard for the Pipalextends through Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Sumatra, and Java.
High-caste Hindu women worship the Pipal tree in the form of Vasudeva on the Amavasya or fifteenth day of the month, when it falls on Monday.
Two leaves of the Pipal or sacred fig tree, one representing her and the other her accusers, are thrown upon her outstretched hands.
In Rajputana the Pipal and Banyan are worshipped by women on the 29th day of Baisakh (April-May) to preserve them from widowhood.
I will,' says the spirit, 'never come back, if you take these things to the Pipal tree in my field.
The way to get out of the difficulty is to marry the girl first to a Pipal tree.
The pipal tree is scrupulously worshipped, and a lighted lamp placed beside it every evening.
In the Somavati festival, the Mahratta women circumambulate a pipal tree, and place offerings on it, when the new moon falls on a Monday.
The pipal tree is preferable for avenues to the banyan.
No trees, perhaps, are held in greater veneration in India, than the Ficus Religiosa or pipal tree.
When thepipal and the neem glisten with star flowers and sweeten the foetid night-air, it matters nothing to me that the natives believe evil gods home in the branches.
First seven paces were marked off, and Ajeet was told that he must not run, but take the seven steps as in a walk, carrying the hot iron on a pipal leaf on his palm.
Put it here," Sookdee said, as he laid a pipal leaf of twice the thickness he had given Ajeet upon the palm of Hunsa.
A mile down the red road from the bungalow, looking like a huge beehive with its heavy enveloping roof of thatch, that was Jean Baptiste's head-quarters, was a particularly sacred pipal of huge growth.
Also there was immediately a reversal of bird form, a shatterment of sentiment, a rasping maddening note from somewhere in the dome of a pipal tree.
As Sookdee placed a broad pipalleaf upon the jamadar's palm, Ajeet repeated in a firm voice: "I take the ordeal.
Instead of erecting a pandal, the Godas go to a pipal (Ficus religiosa) tree, near which one or more daggers are placed.
A piece of bone is carried away from the burning-ground, and buried under a pipal (Ficus religiosa) tree.
She then stands up, and bends down while her sister-in-law pours milk from a betel or pipal (Ficus religiosa) leaf on her back.
An old man came running up the road, between its walls of pipal trees, beating his mouth with the palm of his hand in a staccato lament.
At the back of the raised terrace which surrounded the ancient temple was a Pipal or sacred fig-tree, fabled to be the very tree under which Gautama sat during his course of profound meditation ending in Buddhahood (see p.
S]al-tree would have ranked next in sacredness to the Pipaland Banyan; for according to one legend, Maya gave birth to Gautama while standing under a [.
Gaya), under the shadow of a Pipal tree, held as sacred by them as by Buddhists.
To compensate for its loss, a new Pipal tree was planted behind the restored temple by Sir A.
It is believed that male offspring will be given to childless couples, if they celebrate a marriage of the pipal with the nim tree (Melia Azadirachta).
The pipal or aswatha tree may be seen, in many South Indian villages, with a raised platform round it, before which Hindus remove their shoes, and bow down.
The plate for the bridegroom is V-shaped like a namam, and that for the bride like a pipal leaf.
To the post leafy twigs of the mango or pipal (Ficus religiosa) are tied.
They dip twigs of the pipal (Ficus religiosa) into the milk, and throw them on the roof.
The pipal tree of India has long drip tips to its leaves that conduct the excess water from the blade to the end of the slender tip where it drips off.
Dripping points, which in less exaggerated forms than in the pipal tree are common in many parts of the world, are thus of decided advantage.
Fifty of them may be perched in a pipal tree, and a man on the look-out for them may fail to detect a single individual until one of the birds moves.
Scarcely had I lost sight of him when there was a considerable commotion in the pipaltree near by.
It is clothed in a mantle of green of every hue, from the vivid emerald of the young rice crop to the dark bluish green of the pipal tree.
I discovered that the bird making the commotion near the summit of the pipal tree was a vulture.
Hornbills feed largely on fruit and are fond of that of the pipal and the banian trees.
This was a nest in course of construction, which the vulture was lining withpipal branches.
And save for two old Langurs (monkeys) that cursed from a pipal tree as we went back to our Nullah, we saw no Dweller of the Jungle, nor of the fields.
Seeing no chance of the rogue's coming down, and as there was no third person present to whom he could call for help, our hero tied his horse to an adjacent tree and began climbing up the pipal tree himself.
Wherever he sawpipal trees (Asvattharajas), [23] he ordered Brahmans to surround them.
With rage in his heart at the trick played upon his stupid wife, our hero rode on in hot haste, and after a ride of two ghatikas he caught sight of the departing rogue, who, finding escape hopeless, climbed up into a big pipal tree.
The Brahmarakshas calmly took it, and sat in a pipal tree to make it straight.
Heavy cracks in the roof let in shafts of the fading daylight, and roots of weeds and pipal trees had penetrated and hung below.
At intervals on the road pipal trees afforded shelter to travellers by the wayside.
She seemed to have fallen into a deep crater, and but for a projection of roof that still held firm owing to a network of pipal roots, she would have been as drenched as the bricks and mortar with which she was surrounded.
A pipal tree flourished aloft above its dome, its roots buried in the concrete and clinging to the walls; while festoons of wild convolvulus hung in profusion from the lower branches.
He gave me his coat and his rug, and made cups out of pipal leaves to catch the raindrops as they fell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pipal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
